Better Question from a New Guy - Learning to Handle and Care for my new Shotgun

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After reading your other post in the bows forum, you don't live too far away from me. Since you are familiar with the area, I live right next to the Milestone Center where Wal-Mart, Target, and Home Depot are located right at 118, 355, and 27 and I know exactly where Dicks is. I am willing to bet that you bought that shotgun at the Dicks in the Rio Center. The only other one around this area is in Columbia, Maryland.

There are several trap and skeet ranges around the area. There is one right up route 28 that I have shot at a couple of times, but the one I go to the most often is around Greenbelt, Maryland right next to NASA off of Good Luck Road. I think there is even a place by me off of Riffle Ford Road that throws trap and skeet, but when I checked their website they said the range is closed. Probably because they just built some million dollar homes over there. The rich complain and the trap range that has been there for 30 years is shut down.

I would be more than willing to give you some help with shotgun shooting. I'm not the best shot out there, but I have been doing it for a while and I know a little. Let me know if you would like to head to the range one day.

If you are interested in waterfowling, I might even be able to get you out on a goose hunt later this year or next year once you get the hang of swinging a shotgun. It is a lot easier to learn to shoot at the range than in a hunting situation where a bunch of things are going on.